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You would never believe who is featured front and center in Elizabeth Warren's new ad touting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Ok you will, but the "netroots" probably won't.

Here's a transcript of the ad:

BARACK OBAMA: Elizabeth Warren, she's a janitor's daughter; who's become one of the country's fiercest advocates for the middle class. She came up with an idea for a new independent agency that would have one simple overriding mission: standing up for consumers and middle class families.

ELIZABETH WARREN: The big banks tried to stop us, but that new agency is already working to cut the fine print and hold those banks accountable. We can take on the big guys, and win.

I'm Elizabeth Warren, and I approve this message.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold on there, Ms. Warren! What do you mean we can take on the big banks and win? Who's we? Barack Obama and Elizabeth Warren? OMG! But but but... the whiners on the "Lefty" corners of the net have been telling us constantly and Barack Obama is a Wall Street lackey and that's why he didn't nominate Warren to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the subject of this ad)! Wuaaaa!!!

If you remember the version of the relationship between President Obama and Elizabeth Warren offered by utterly clueless whiners on the Professional Left, Katrina vanden Heuvel for example, Obama and Geithner were merely pressured into giving Warren a prominent role. That they really wanted to undermine her, because they were Wall Street lackeys who really didn't want to regulate the big banks, and the financial reform legislation that created into law the agency that was Warren's brainchild wasn't worth the paper it was written on. That if President Obama didn't appoint Warren to head the agency, it was evidence that he is a weak-kneed sellout who was afraid of a fight, even if the actual appointee was a hand-picked protege of Warren's and a stellar Director in his own right.

Warren's ad just drove a dagger to the heart of that meme. Not only is she proud to stand with the President and feature the President in her ad, it was with his leadership that we could "take on the big guys, and win."

Of course, as we have pointed out again and again, Elizabeth Warren isn't only a close ally of President Obama's, she's been instrumental shaping Wall Street reform, especially the consumer protection agency. And she chose to do the early work on it rather than be its Director on an ongoing basis, which, incidentally, freed her up to run against Scott Brown and run this awesome ad.

President Obama, on his trip to Africa and responding to GOP fit about the historic nuclear deal with Iran, brilliantly namechecked Mike Huckabee and Donald Trump and threw a bunch of lit firecrackers in the midst of the already chaotic GOP primary field.

After facing strong pushback from Black Lives Matter protesters, Bernie Sanders' - and to be more precise, his supporters - progressive ego took some bruising. So they coalesced around this article on Alternet - 20 Examples of Bernie Sanders' Powerful Record on Civil and Human Rights. Problem is, the piece actually consists of 20 tone deaf reiterations of talking points that exemplify a lack of listening and attention to race issues. But hey, Bernie marched and he has black friends. So.

New unemployment claims are at a 42-year low, according to new data released from the Labor department. And that doesn't even take into account the substantial growth of the labor force in that time. Obama recovery roars again, this time even closer to full employment from economic disaster in less than seven years.

#AllLivesMatter. Yes, they do. But that's not the point. The reason that #BlackLivesMatter is a movement is because African Americans still struggle to secure the right to be fully equal in this country. And the present situation has a long, dark gestation.

We've all been entertained by Donald Trump's buffoonery, heralding it as the demise of the GOP. But the air he's sucking out of campaign coverage allows a field as horrific as he is to escape scrutiny. The Donald is awful; but he has no chance of winning the nomination. (At which point he could go rogue and run as an independent.) The ones who do have a chance are no different than Trump save in tone.

By now, nearly everyone has heard about Bernie Sanders and Martin O'Mally being stomped at Netroots Nation by Black Lives Matters protesters. But the incident represents a bigger problem: the devastating failure in the establishment of the self-proclaimed of the progressive movement on race. By allowing their economic displeasure to suck up air from social justice, the liberal establishment is making a grave error. But the error is unforced. The candidates, and the movement, has had stellar examples of leadership on social justice in President Obama and his administration, but chosen to blindly ignore it.

Yesterday, I detailed Bernie Sanders' problem with ethnic minorities and the psyche behind what is driving is appeal to white liberals in white liberal cities but keeping minorities on the sidelines. But it gets worse. Sanders' record on guns and his key support for racist vigilante border militia group known as the Minutemen gives us a broader window into the Senator's callous ignorance of race issues at best and his willing disregard of people of color at worst.